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Author & Advisory Board Member Edwidge Danticat asks:

In the midst of such sadness and turmoil, why read to displaced children who live in tents and fear the rain, like the passionate Haitian readers of the Port-au-Prince-based Li, Li, Li! (Read, Read, Read!) program do every week?

"We read to these children for the same reason people read to all other children," the readers say. "We read to them to help them grow their imaginations, to teach them about the world around them. And beyond them. We also read to them to learn from them."

Excerpt from "I Used To Love The Rain" And Other New Fears Of Haitian Children by Author/Professor Edwidge Danticat, Huffington Post, Sept. 15, 2010